Why go down? Hoping to earn the GK a red card? Or does he have so little faith in himself being able to score in an open net that penalty has the higher chance of success?
Sporting slaughtering city good because city lose but not happy amorim is taking over at old Trafford
It’s all a front… they want to look like they are the verge of being a “normal” EPL team, not a club turbocharged with illegal sovereign wealth fund commercial agreements. If they look vulnerable enough, maybe the FA will be more lenient in punishing them for their 100+ infractions… I’m saying this tongue-in-cheek, but part of me wouldn’t put it past them to play the wounded team to try to get some sympathy…
It’s been a shitty 24 hrs so forgive me the minor chest bump from the summer calling out Arsenal and City squads as not all that.
True - for now. Rodri can't be replaced - which is good - but City will try in January. Arsenal just lost their sporting director - he's done a good job for them. Not sure if they will be able to add in January.
Yeah, poor. "Tough" I meant for the supporters I guess... as in difficult to watch/stomach. To expect a title challenge (if not an outright win) to then watch this happen in just 3 months, that's tough on a supporter. Not to suggest Arsenal deserve any better. Odegaard injury, maybe. Other than that, they've not been very good from what I've seen.
Rodri injury doing a lot of heavy lifting there... That said, they should be concerned about Haaland, surely... 5 goals, zero assists in last 10 matches; the goals came against Shampton, Prague, Bratislava, and 10-man Arsenal; and they've dropped points in 5 of those matches.
Hilarious mistake by Mings costs Villa the game yesterday - his first time starting a CL game. as usual, Martinez was wasting time by delaying a goalkick. he kicked the ball slowly over to Mings who bent down and picked it up. he hadn't been paying attention. penalty 1-0. apart from the eye-rolling idiocy, there is a more important point. the sequence of events were basically identical to what happened in an Arsenal CL game a year or so back. but that ref decided to not penalize Arsenal for a "schoolboy error". it's not just the PGMOL.
I remember when signing Gundogan meant they were unstoppable again. I don't know if I've even noticed him this season.
That's fair too. Just as an option seemed a good addition, if just for the inevitable KDB injury. Hasn't apparently worked out amazingly so far. They remain 2 points back from Liverpool, with this stuff going wrong. So. You know. Lots left to play for. As I said at the time, we will see where it shakes out in May. As always I'd love to be wrong and see Liverpool pip them both to the title.
Order Restored!!! ManU 2-0 PAOK "Ruud vanNistlroy has done in one game what Eric tenHag was not able to do in three"